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Bloomberg administration

Shots Fired

It’s becoming an unsettlingly familiar routine in too many of New York’s police precincts: a report of shots fired.
By The Editors

Parks and Wreck: The Fight for Pier 40 and the Myth of Public Parks

When Sandy swept into the town almost two months ago, Hudson River Park—as its name might suggest—was among the places
By Matt Chaban

With Sandy as an Excuse, Community Boards Beg Governor Cuomo to Stop Midtown East Rezoning

Basically everybody but the Bloomberg administration and select landlords in the area wants to see the Midtown East Rezoning delayed.
By Matt Chaban
Battered and broken. (Mayor's Office/Flickr)

Zone A Zoning: Independent Budget Office Critical of Bloomberg’s Two-Faced Waterfront Developments

By Matt Chaban

Shipping Container Living Looks Pretty Nice: Inside NYC’s Secret Disaster Apartments

By Matt Chaban
Sea Box village. (Sea Box)

Home, Sweet Shipping Container: NYC’s Secret Plans for the Perfect Disaster Apartments

By Matt Chaban
The traffic is usually bad enough as it is around Thanksgiving—could gas rationing make it worse? (Getty)

With Busiest Travel Day of the Year Ahead, New York City Gas Rationing Will Continue Through Friday

By Matt Chaban
Wavy gravy, baby. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dan Doctoroff Still Wants Waterfront Development—So Long As ‘Fools’ Evacuate Next Time

By Matt Chaban
SPURA springs eternal. (NYC EDC)

Hip Hip SPURA! Land-Use Committee Approves LES Development After 40-Year Slog

By Jonah Wolf
Public Housing in Manhattan.

With Public Housing Under Attack, Can An Ex-Lehman Banker Save New York’s Last Affordable Apartments?

By Matt Chaban
They want more to look at. (Getty)

City Planning Says It Is Not Rushing Midtown Rezoning, Though It Has Good Reason to Act Fast

By Matt Chaban
Too big, too fast? (DCP)

Midtown Slowdown: Councilman Garodnick Asks City to Take Its Time on Rezoning Midtown for Superscrapers

By Matt Chaban
Fun out of the sun.

Mayor Bloomberg Makes a Splash: Scaled-Back Aquarium Gets City Funding

By Matt Chaban
Now that's a skyline. (William Weber/Curbed)

Another Look at the Quite Possibly Insane Midtown Skyline of the Future

By Matt Chaban
London's new ride, with access for all.

Even Though London Will Have Accessible Nissan Cabs, TLC Says ADA Makes It Impossible

By Matt Chaban
An aborted site for a new velodrome in the South Bronx. (David Dunlap/NYT)

Where Is All That Non-Olympics Progress Everybody Keeps Bragging About?

By Matt Chaban
Ain't she a beaut': 49-51 Chambers Street.

Stringer Opposes Sale of City Buildings He Finally Has the Power to Stop—If Big Name Developers Don’t Get in the Way

By Matt Chaban
A new dawn for the old boardwalk? (Kevin Richardson/Save Coney Island)

A Hard Position: Coney Islanders Sue City Over Concretewalk

By Matt Chaban

How About Another Empire State Building or Two? City Outlines Mega Midtown East Rezoning

By Matt Chaban
The city will try and build a building for micro-apartments on a lot along First Avenue and East 27th Street. (Bing Maps)

Would You Ditch Your Squalid Share for a 300-Square-Foot ‘Micro-Apartment?’

By Matt Chaban
Might Midtown, 1935. (Ephemeral New York)

Never Mind Midtown, We’ve Been Arguing About Skyscrapers for As Long As We’ve Been Building Them

By Matt Chaban
Watch your head. (Edward Reed/Mayor's Office)

Two-Wheeled Trouble: Is the Helmet Law Just a Covert Attack on New York’s Bike Share Program?

By Matt Chaban

At Least One Huge Housing Development Is Still on Track: Hunters Point South Will Break Ground This Fall

By Matt Chaban
Party time. Excellent? (Dennis Crowley/Flickr)

Does New York Have Too Many Bars? And Is There Anything the City Can Do About It?

By Matt Chaban
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